LFF 2026
Still from Compressed Distances

Experimenta

Compressed Distances

Contending with oppression, violence, and dispossession, these four works embody acts of defiance and solidarity; some enacted up close, others from afar. As images narrow the gaps, kinships are formed.
Runtime
83 min
More information
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Screenings

Gestures to Break an Image

  • Director-screenwriter

    Mayra Villavicencio Príncipe

  • Peru 2026. 15min

Protests and police brutality in Lima are witnessed from abroad. Interventions are made using video editing tools and incisive commentary.

Content warning

Contains scenes of graphic violence or injury.

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  • Director

    Blair Barnes

  • USA 2026. 20min

An interview recorded with analogue video reveals the hardships and perseverance throughout the subject’s life. Intergenerational exchange becomes mutual aid.

Content warning

Contains flashing images.

Contains homophobic and racist attitudes and language.

Going Home

  • Director-screenwriter

    Kamal Aljafari

  • Germany-France-Palestine 2026. 21min

At his parent’s home, agonised by news of relatives killed in Gaza, Aljafari films a local broadcast from a television.

Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo

  • Director-screenwriter

    Kamal Aljafari

  • Germany-Japan-France 2026. 27min

The routine task of taking a passport photo reveals the impasse that prominent filmmaker Masao Adachi continues to live through.